Joseph Shattan skriver, at Republikanerne tabte præsidentvalget i 2008, fordi Bush-administrationen ikke dokumenterede, at Saddam Hussein i 2003 flyttede masseødelæggelsesvåben til Syrien: "Why wasn't the Bush administration citing Gen. James Clapper, the Director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, who said that satellite imagery proved conclusively that shortly before the war's outbreak, Iraq had transferred its weapons of mass destruction to Syria? Why wasn't it quoting Gen. Georges Sada, deputy chief of Saddam's air force, or Gen. Moshe Ya'alon, Israel's chief-of-staff, both of whom also claimed that Saddam's weapons had been transferred to Syria?"
